Overview

Jazz is more popular than it has been for a long time! Young people are once again enthusiastic about swinging rhythms and jazzy grooves. Yet little is known about the background of this music. What is jazz? How did this music come to Germany? Why did the Nazis see jazz as a danger? Why were young followers of swing music deported to forced camps and jazz musicians even to concentration camps? And how was jazz able to achieve its great breakthrough despite all this?